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| Thread ID: 110450 | 2010-06-17 09:06:00 | Did you find Office 2007 a learning curve? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1111063 | 2010-06-17 21:29:00 | I went from Office 2003 to Beta 2010. Took a bit of getting used to but I quite like it now especially outlook but having seen the M$ price gouging to go to Office 2010 with no upgrade path only buy new I will be going back to office 2003 when Oct 31 comes along. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1111064 | 2010-06-17 21:52:00 | I was dreading changing from 03 to 07 last year but found the change to be painless although I mainly only use Word, Outlook and occasionally Excel | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1111065 | 2010-06-17 22:10:00 | Still got office 97, will wait till non student office 03 cd cost less than a $100 on Trademe then buy. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1111066 | 2010-06-18 01:26:00 | Still got office 97, will wait till non student office 03 cd cost less than a $100 on Trademe then buy. You can get office starter 2010 for FREE and legal. Theres a "catch" though,you have to buy a NEW PC-- But , Hey -- Office is free :p |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1111067 | 2010-06-18 02:23:00 | I ditched Microsoft Office a while ago and switched to OpenOffice Wordperfect Office 2000 is also very nice, has some great features that Microsoft probably still doesn't have. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1111068 | 2010-06-18 08:15:00 | I love Office 2007. :wub I use Office 2003 at work and I am constantly trying to do stuff which can only be done in 2007. For example, in Word highlight some text and a pop up menu with many of the standard tool bar functions appears immediately above it. So much easier than mousing up to the top tool bars. I use Word 07 for my studies at home and the inbuilt reference manager is awesome! The only thing that bugs me is they have categorised certain tools under headings which are not logical to me and I have to look through the various tabs until I find it. Overall, using Office 2007 was not a major learning curve and the whole ribbon thing or globe menu doesn't bother me. Pretty much my experience - prefer 2007 at mo but will move on to 2010 no doubt. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1111069 | 2010-06-18 10:13:00 | You can get office starter 2010 for FREE and legal. Theres a "catch" though,you have to buy a NEW PC-- But , Hey -- Office is free :p Or find someone who has bought a new computer & create a portable version on a flash drive. I'm glad I get a free copy through work. I don't think it is $230 better than Open Office |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1111070 | 2010-06-18 22:06:00 | Or find someone who has bought a new computer & create a portable version on a flash drive. I'm glad I get a free copy through work. I don't think it is $230 better than Open Office Best of luck trying to get it onto a flash drive, it doesn't install the same way as a usual install of software. Starter edition I'm referring to which is free with new PC's. As for pricing -- MS office is cheap compared to other software- Some of Adobe's for example-- Now thats expensive. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1111071 | 2010-06-18 23:18:00 | Well out school upgraded from 2003 to 2007 at the start of this year. Although I don't know why they didn't just wait 6 months and get 2010? Anyway, I've been using it at home since it came out in '07 so I don't have any problems with it. I understand that they trained all the teachers extensively although there have been A LOT of complaints from teachers as to why they needed to change... - as far as they were concerned '03 was just fine! But as the year has got on that group has become smaller and smaller and now a majority of teachers and students are happy using '07! |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 1111072 | 2010-06-18 23:56:00 | Well out school upgraded from 2003 to 2007 at the start of this year. Although I don't know why they didn't just wait 6 months and get 2010? Anyway, I've been using it at home since it came out in '07 so I don't have any problems with it. I understand that they trained all the teachers extensively although there have been A LOT of complaints from teachers as to why they needed to change... - as far as they were concerned '03 was just fine! But as the year has got on that group has become smaller and smaller and now a majority of teachers and students are happy using '07! It wouldn't have cost them anything (directly anyway) - the Ministry of Education has done a deal with Microsoft to bulk-purchase licences for public schools, which includes upgrade rights to the version of Office or Windows being offered at the time. When 2010 is made available, it will most likely be included in the agreement. See: http://www.moe.dsv.co.nz/ |
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